I had to feed my family pasta and chips for SIX WEEKS when my oven broke… there’s nothing else you can do without one
A MUM-OF-TWO has revealed her family had to survive on pasta and chips for SIX WEEKS after their oven broke, leaving her “stressed and upset.”
Sophie Murphy, 31, a retail worker from Kings Norton, said she can’t afford to keep buying takeaways during the six-week wait for Birmingham City Council to repair the oven.
Miss Murphy and her husband told Birmingham Live that they have been making do with a borrowed microwave, AirFryer and camp fire hob to feed themselves and their two children, aged four and twelve.
The oven has been broken since before Christmas after a fuse blew on Monday, December 20.
Miss Murphy claims that chips, chicken nuggets, and pasta are “all you can really cook without an oven.”
During the weekend, she has to try and cook for five children and two adults without a cooker as her husband’s other children join them for two days.
Miss Murphy said: “I am so stressed and upset with the situation. I can’t afford to pay for an electrician myself.”
A Birmingham City Council worker came to their family home on Christmas Eve, but the oven remained broken with wires exposed when they realised it was a bigger job than expected.
Most read in News
Miss Murphy’s son is in the process of being diagnosed with autism and is being “very picky with food.”
This is making the situation more difficult for his parents who say that there are only very limited foods they can cook until the oven is fixed.
Miss Murphy added: “They (the council) said they would send an email to get someone out to do the job. They said: ‘Someone will contact you within 24 hours’ and they never do.”
Birmingham City Council have apologised for the issue and have promised to get the oven “replaced as soon as possible.”
A spokesman for the authority said: “We are sorry for the problems caused by the failure to repair the tenants’ broken cooker. A housing officer will ensure it is replaced as soon as possible.”